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Immigrant earnings: a longitudinal analysis

Chiswick, Barry R.; Lee, Yew Liang; Miller, Paul W. - 2005

This paper uses the Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Australia to analyze the determinants of the level and growth … in earnings of adult male immigrants in their first 3.5 years in Australia. The theoretical framework is based on the …

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Social interactions in demand

Grodner, Andrew; Kniesner, Thomas J. - 2008

We examine theoretically demand in a two-good economy where the demand of one good is influenced by either a spillover effect in the form of an externality from other consumers' choices and or a conformity effect representing a need for making similar choices as others. A positive spillover...

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The problem of overskilling in Australia and Britain

Mavromaras, Kostas; McGuinness, Seamus; O'Leary, Nigel C.; … - 2007

This paper examines the parallel trends in education and labour market developments in Australia and Britain. It uses … Australia, but the wage penalty associated with overskilling increases with education. Although the general patterns of … overskilling (prevalence and penalties) are fairly similar between Australia and Britain, the problem appears to be greater in …

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Labor Demand Responses to Changing Gas Prices

Bossler, Mario; Moog, Alexander; Schank, Thorsten - 2023

–2020, we find for manufacturing establishments a gas price elasticity of labor demand of −0.02, likely reflecting a scale … price on wages of 2 percent is consistent with rent-sharing. …

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Testing theories of job creation: does supply create its own demand?

Carlsson, Mikael; Eriksson, Stefan; Gottfries, Nils - 2006

in other firms (congestion). According to efficiency wage and bargaining theory, wages are set above the market clearing …

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Trade Liberalization and Labor-Demand Elasticities : Empirical Evidence from Tunisia

Haouas, Ilham; Yagoubi, Mahmoud - 2004

and labor-demand elasticities. This weakness of labor demand elasticity in practice is perhaps explained by the tight …

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Marshall and Labour Demand in Russia: Going Back to Basics

Konings, Jozef; Lehmann, Hartmut - 2001

Using a unique enterprise-level data set, which covers the regions Moscow City, Chelyabinsk, Krasnoyarsk and Chuvashia and the three sectors manufacturing and mining, construction and trade and distribution, we estimate Russian labour demand equations for the year 1997. The most important...

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The impact of institutions on the employment performance in European labour markets

Buscher, Herbert S.; Dreger, Christian; Ramos, Raúl; … - 2005

, labour demand equations are fitted in levels by efficient estimation techniques. To account for possible structural change …

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Skill-Biased Technical Change in U.S. Manufacturing: A General Index Approach

Baltagi, Badi H.; Rich, Daniel P. - 2003

This article applies recent advances in productivity and efficiency measurement to the evaluation of skillbiased technical change. Using the general index approach we are able to establish an explicit and unconstrained time path for nonneutral technical change between production and...

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Threshold Values in German Labor Law and Job Dynamics in Small Firms: The Case of the Disability Law

Wagner, Joachim; Schnabel, Claus; Kölling, Arnd - 2001

According to the German disability law, or Schwerbehindertengesetz, either six percent of all jobs in an establishment must be occupied by disabled empoyees or the firm has to pay a penalty of DM 200 per month for every job under consideration. This note reports results from the first...

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